Amaechi accuses Akpabio of collecting 50% from NDDC contractors

Former Rivers State Governor and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of introducing a 50 per cent deduction from contractors handling projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

Amaechi challenged Akpabio to explicate the alleged deductions, saying the Senate President should relationship for his relation successful the practice.

He spoke connected Saturday astatine the ADC run rally held astatine the Tafawa Balewa Stadium successful Bauchi, wherever helium besides criticised President Bola Tinubu implicit the country's economical hardship.

Amaechi's allegation followed what helium described arsenic Akpabio's caller comments against him successful Port Harcourt.

“Akpabio, who was successful Port Harcourt the different time abusing maine and talking nonsense, inquire him who introduced 50 per cent from contractors successful NDDC. It was Akpabio,” helium said.

The erstwhile politician besides accused Tinubu of controlling the nation's resources portion Nigerians continued to conflict with rising surviving costs.

He said an ADC authorities would reconstruct substance and energy subsidies to trim the outgo of surviving and easiness the hardship facing citizens.

“We volition bring backmost subsidy, the terms of everything volition spell down. We cognize your suffering, we cognize determination is excessively overmuch money, Tinubu has collected each the money,” Amaechi said.

He besides promised that the enactment would...